Mellanox Demonstrates Record Performance for ANSYS High-Performance Computing Application with Dell HPC Solutions
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Mellanox Demonstrates Record Performance for ANSYS High-Performance Computing Application with Dell HPC Solutions

SUNNYVALE, Calif. & YOKNEAM, Israel — (BUSINESS WIRE) — November 10, 2014 — Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX), a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced it has achieved, through collaboration with Dell, world-record performance for ANSYS Fluent 15.0.7, exceeding previous results submitted by more than 25 percent*. By connecting Dell HPC Solutions’ 32-node high-performance computing cluster with Mellanox’s end-to-end FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand solutions and HPC-X v1.2 MPI software library, industrial customers can deploy systems that achieve higher application performance compared to systems that are 3X larger in size, resulting in 67 percent savings on CAPEX and OPEX.

ANSYS Fluent is a leading commercial high-performance computing application from simulation software provider ANSYS that offers the broad physical modeling capabilities needed to model flow, turbulence, heat transfer, and reactions for industrial applications. ANSYS is deployed in applications ranging from air flow over an aircraft wing to combustion in a furnace, from bubble columns to oil platforms, from blood flow to semiconductor manufacturing, and from clean room design to wastewater treatment plants. Now industrial customers deploying a 32-node Dell-based cluster can realize a greater than 25 percent increase in performance, speeding time-to-analysis and time-to-market in their business, and achieving the full promise of a supercomputer’s performance level. Customers also can speed up their deployments as the 64-CPUs/640-core result beat the previous record by the 192-CPUs/1920-core Aries interconnect-based cluster by 8.53 percent.

In order to compete in today’s global market, industrial organizations are increasingly required to perform more and quicker data-intensive analysis. Critical to achieving this analysis are HPC solutions that combine multiple systems, perform complex calculations and drive faster processing for the most demanding applications.

As a leader in HPC solutions, Dell provides robust, scalable and responsive solutions that are cost-effective and enable product innovation. They are deployed across the globe as the computational foundation for academic, governmental and industrial research critical to scientific advancement and economic and global competitiveness.

“Dell’s HPC solutions are specifically optimized to reduce the time it takes to process heavy workloads, including industrial applications, by weeks or even months,” said Jimmy Pike, vice president, senior fellow and chief architect of the Enterprise Solutions Group at Dell. “By running ANSYS software on Mellanox and Dell solutions, customers in both manufacturing and engineering can accelerate the design and optimization of their product development, at substantially less capital cost and operating expense.”

“These results are a testament of the performance and efficiency of Mellanox FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand. As systems scale, the performance difference by using Connect-IB would be more dramatic against other interconnects,” said Gilad Shainer, vice president of marketing at Mellanox Technologies. “With only a third of the amount of servers used by the competition, the combined Dell and Mellanox platform achieved best-in-class performance. These results are significant for industrial and commercial manufacturing companies looking to quicken their time-to-market without having to increase their costs.”

The 32-node ANSYS Fluent 15.0.7 Dell HPC Solution cluster included:

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About Mellanox

Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions and services for servers and storage. Mellanox interconnect solutions increase data center efficiency by providing the highest throughput and lowest latency, delivering data faster to applications and unlocking system performance capability. Mellanox offers a choice of fast interconnect products: adapters, switches, software, cables and silicon that accelerate application runtime and maximize business results for a wide range of markets including high-performance computing, enterprise data centers, Web 2.0, cloud, storage and financial services. More information is available at www.mellanox.com.

* Performance results based on eddy_417k benchmark and over an uncertified MPI. Actual performance differences may vary with input data or workload.

Mellanox, ConnectX, SwitchX, and Virtual Protocol Interconnect are registered trademarks of Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.


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